Critical Commentary Post One Week Nine

I wanted to write on a band this week. The band Jake Trout and the Flounders is especially intriguing to me, because of what I do in class every week. I am studying form, but also sound in a sense. There is always that inner ear asking if what we read is pleasing or displeasing, and with that, if it is surprising in the language. The theory brought to question was that song lyrics cannot stand alone as poetry. For most bands, yes, but I feel as though Jake Trout and the Flounders writes lyrics that can stand apart. 
First off, they are the Weird Al Yankovic of the golf music world. However, there isn’t really a golf music world. In any case, the band draws it’s claim to fame through the idea of golf mixing with rock and roll. One way that they do this is improv-ing. Now, this is what I do in my journal.  I take something I like and appreciate from the original piece and I make it my own. In the majority of Jake Trout and the Flounders, they do this with music. There are songs with some phrases and most music being shifted from “Low Rider” to “Low Riser” and “Let Her Cry” to “I Just Wanna Cry.” These well known songs offer not only what they bring to the music world as an original, but also what they bring as an object of an improv-ing. I believe some lyrics can stand on their own because of the use of rhyme scheme. The majority of the songs that I have heard have some sort of rhyme scheme aabb, abcb. This form helps to unify the songs and have potential for being able to stand alone.